'MEDIA HOPELESSLY DIVIDED': The speech of RUSH LIMBAUGH

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(Andrew Breitbart): "Fox News joined C-SPAN in carrying the nearly hour-and-a-half experience, while CNN broke ranks with the "mainstream media" and aired most of the speech as well.

• It was an address that could have altered the election
  

• had it been delivered early last fall by any Republican presidential candidate.

About midway through Mr. Limbaugh's clear-headed, timely and sometimes rambunctious call to ideological arms, my BlackBerry began buzzing with elated text messages from across the Omni and across the nation.

• A friend in Los Angeles e-mailed a one-liner: "Best speech I have ever seen."

My urbane father-in-law, the first person I knew who copped to listening to Mr. Limbaugh and who has been witness to most of the big events of the modern age, called it the "most thrilling thing [he's] seen on TV."...

• Spokespeople for CPAC said it was the best-received speech in the conference's 36 years. And that included Ronald Reagan, who, by the way, was no rhetorical slouch.

By any measure, Mr. Limbaugh hit the ball out of the park. He may have done so for the team that, these days, many people are rooting against. But the ball did land over the fence.

• On the other hand, the "drive-by media" - as Mr. Limbaugh aptly refers to his business competition and ideological foes -
  

• portrayed a completely different event.

Clearly taking their cues from Mr. Obama - as well as Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid - the Fourth Estate, without the benefit of a Frank Luntz focus group or an instant poll,

• immediately labeled the speech as "angry" and alienating to "moderate voters."

The netroots, the mainstream media's devious protector from its left flank (e.g., the Huffington Post, Media Matters and the Daily Kos) also opined

• as if they had witnessed a hate crime.

Anonymous liberal commentators, the rabid pests of the new media, sought out the most popular conservative blogs to flood the zone

• with familiar Rush Limbaugh slanders.
  
• Their goal:
  

• To demoralize the right with
  
• layer upon layer of media domination.
  

Only talk radio with its emphasis on Socratic debate over raw emotionalism

• and with Mr. Limbaugh in the driver's seat
  

• has escaped the left's clutches of pure media dominance.
  

For years, the radio kin of these underhanded online annoyances - coined by Rush as "seminar callers" - have read their Democratic National Committee-produced scripts to muddy the political waters.

• Talk-show call screeners will be on double duty this week trying to keep off the air anyone who might try to tear down the post-speech unity and elation.

For more than a generation, the traditional media has tried to build a wall around public sentiment

• to protect the Democratic Party
  
• from articulate critics.
  

Recent election cycles and the emergence of the Internet have only exacerbated the situation. In the past year, media bias has gotten out of hand.

• But it has not been able to stop that mountain
  
• we call Rush.
  

He is much more than an entertainer or a person who can "motivate the base" - as the media repeats like cheap talking points.

He has the uncanny ability to expose

• the intricate web of bias to those who do not yet know that they
  
• should doubt the media's sincerity.
  

Many in the Regency Ballroom on Saturday night were once dupes or elitists like me who were shown the light by a guy who didn't even graduate college.

• With newspapers long ago judged as far gone on the left
  

• and television networks turned off for good by enraged customers,
  

• the media has good reason to hate Mr. Limbaugh.

Mr. Limbaugh is the man who is most to blame for their demise. No wonder they bad-mouth him every chance they get." Washington Times

It will take the individual efforts of thousands to defeat the cancer that is Soros.

Tweet Soros funds infiltration of 9/11 truth, election protection,

• and “independent” journalism: (This to confirm what most already know):

international hedge fund mogul and financier of “progressive” causes George Soros has been, for a number of years, infiltrating 9/11 “truth” organizations, groups advocating election reform,

• and so-called “independent journalism” enterprises in order to hijack agendas and, eventually, cause the groups to collapse from within or be absorbed into larger organizations servile to Soros and his agenda.

By far, the largest group Soros and his allies has infiltrated and taken over is the Democratic Party of the United States. It now totally adheres to a corporatist line and has purged from its leadership Dr. Howard Dean and replaced him with Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, a Democratic Leadership Council adherent.

• The Soros faction and its allies has also seen to it that Bill Richardson, Caroline Kennedy, and others who represent the “Democratic wing of the Democratic Party” have been shut out of the Obama administration....

Soros’ operations, according to our sources, involve his Open Society Institute, as well as Soros Fund Management LLC, in which his son, Jonathan Soros, plays a leading role.

• For Soros, his political operations in America are much the same as they are in places like Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, and other countries:

• divide, confuse the political sides, and conquer.

The modus operandi is that Soros operatives either help establish “progressive” organizations or join them after they are established with a new infusion of a modest to substantial funding.

• The agenda of the organization is then altered to make it look either like a far-out “conspiracy” association or the infiltrators of the organization create internecine battles between factions or tamp down its fervor. In some cases, the organizations ultimately cease to exist or are combined with other Soros-controlled or influenced organizations.

In the case of alternative journalism operations, Soros’ operatives launch attacks, some of them highly personal, against bona fide independent journalists and question their sources and investigations. WMR has been a primary target for such operations, according to sources familiar with Soros’ tactics.

Soros’ agents of disinformation and influence have moved in to “manage” the stories about jailed Alabama Democratic Governor Don Siegelman,

• the 2004 vote fraud in Ohio,

the Turkish and Israeli intelligence penetration of the highest echelons of the U.S. government, the presence of Israeli spies among the accused 9/11 hijackers in the months prior to the terrorist attacks in 2001, and Russian-Israeli “Kosher Nostra” criminal activity from London to Kyiv and New York to Moscow.

• Overall, Soros’ operations are primarily focused on controlling the left through the use of censors

• and online gatekeepers in the media operations he funds.

Recipients of Soros’ money are found running web sites, some of them well known; hosting TV

• and radio programs;

and writing regularly for major periodicals.

Soros has ingratiated himself to many on the Left but that was his goal. However, there are a number of progressives who are wise to Soros’ operations and will continue to expose them regardless of how many more billions he amasses from shorting stocks, speculating on national currencies, and destroying jobs."...

Spengler addresses 'Sex, Drugs, and Islam'

Tweet 2/24/09: "Until very recently, an oil-price windfall gave the Iranian state ample resources to pursue its agenda at home and abroad. How, then, should we explain an eruption of social pathologies in Iran such as drug addiction and prostitution, on a scale much worse than anything observed in the West? Contrary to conventional wisdom, it appears that Islamic theocracy promotes rather than represses social decay.

• Iran is dying. The collapse of Iran's birth rate during the past 20 years is the fastest recorded in any country, ever. Demographers have sought in vain to explain Iran's population implosion through family planning policies, or through social factors such as the rise of female literacy.

• But quantifiable factors do not explain the sudden collapse of fertility. It seems that a spiritual decay has overcome Iran, despite best efforts of a totalitarian theocracy. Popular morale has deteriorated much faster than in the "decadent" West against which the Khomeini revolution was directed. ...

Their efforts to isolate Iran from the cultural degradation of the American "great Satan" have produced social pathologies worse than those in any Western country. With oil at barely one-fifth of its 2008 peak price, they will run out of money some time in late 2009 or early 2010. Game theory would predict that Iran's leaders will gamble on a strategic long shot. That is not a comforting thought for Iran's neighbors.

Two indicators of Iranian morale are worth citing.

First, prostitution has become a career of choice among educated Iranian women. On February 3, the Austrian daily Der Standard published the results of two investigations conducted by the Tehran police, suppressed by the Iranian media. [1]

• "More than 90% of Tehran's prostitutes have passed the university entrance exam, according to the results of one study, and more than 30% of them are registered at a university or studying," reports Der Standard. "The study was assigned to the Tehran Police Department and the Ministry of Health, and when the results were tabulated in early January no local newspaper dared to so much as mention them." ...

A country is beaten when it sells its women, but it is damned when its women sell themselves. The popular image of the Iranian sex trade portrays tearful teenagers abused and cast out by impoverished parents. Such victims doubtless abound, but the majority of Tehran's prostitutes are educated women seeking affluence. ...

• According to a recent report from the US Council on Foreign Relations, "Iran serves as the major transport hub for opiates produced by [Afghanistan], and the UN Office of Drugs and Crime estimates that Iran has as many as 1.7 million opiate addicts." That is, 5% of Iran's adult, non-elderly population of 35 million is addicted to opiates. That is an astonishing number, unseen since the peak of Chinese addiction during the 19th century. The closest American equivalent (from the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health) found that 119,000 Americans reported using heroin within the prior month, or less than one-tenth of 1% of the non-elderly adult population. ...

For the majority of young Iranians, there is no way up, only a way out; 36% of Iran's youth aged 15 to 29 years want to emigrate, according to yet another unpublicized Iranian study, this time by the country's Education Ministry, Der Standard adds. Only 32% find the existing social norms acceptable, while 63% complain about unemployment, the social order or lack of money. ...

• A better explanation of Iran's population implosion is that the country has undergone an existential crisis comparable to encounters of Amazon or Inuit tribes with modernity. Traditional society demands submission to the collective. Once the external constraints are removed, its members can shift from the most extreme forms of modesty to the other extreme of sexual license. Khomeini's revolution attempted to retard the disintegration of Persian society, but it appears to have accelerated the process.

Modernity implies choice, and the efforts of the Iranian mullahs to prolong the strictures of traditional society appear to have backfired. The cause of Iran's collapsing fertility is not literacy as such, but extreme pessimism about the future and an endemic materialism that leads educated Iranian women to turn their own sexuality into a salable commodity.

• Theocracy subjects religion to a political test; it is hard for Iranians to repudiate the regime and remain pious, for religious piety and support for political Islam are inseparable, as a recent academic study documented from survey data [3].

As in the decline of communism, what follows on the breakdown of a state ideology is likely to be nihilism. Iran is a dying country, and it is very difficult to have a rational dialogue with a nation all of whose available choices terminate in oblivion. "

Obama's energy extremists

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"One of them wanted to see Americans paying $8 a gallon for gasoline. Another tried to block access to domestic oil reserves that could one day exceed those in Saudi Arabia. Another thinks global warming is a dire crisis justifying a massive crackdown on energy -- decades after saying the same thing about global cooling. Yet another had a position in the one of the world’s top socialist organizations.

Meet the Obama administration’s energy team.

Forget everything you’ve heard about the president’s moderate picks on the economy, national security and other issues. When it comes to energy policy and related environmental concerns, this group is off-the-charts extreme. Too bad the issue will be a critical one over the next few years.

Consider Obama’s choice for energy secretary, Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Chu. “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe(Eurabia),” The Wall Street Journal quoted him as saying last September. In most Western European nations, gas taxes alone come to around $4 a gallon and are designed to make the pump price so high that people are forced to drive a lot less. At the time of Chu’s comment, the “levels in Europe” were near $8 a gallon.

Chu has also said that electricity prices are “anomalously low,” though he neglected to indicate how much higher he wants them to go. Instead of a secretary of energy, it sounds like America is getting its first secretary against energy. Chu backed off such rhetoric after being nominated, but his true feelings seem obvious.

Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) is Obama’s choice to head the Department of the Interior, the agency that handles energy leasing on federal lands and most offshore areas. As a senator, Salazar has opposed much of this leasing, based on overblown environmental fears. It looks like “drill, baby, drill” isn’t going to survive to adulthood.

In addition to opposing domestic drilling for conventional oil, Salazar was also responsible for legislation blocking the development of oil shale. America has vast amounts of this oil-containing rock, mostly beneath federal lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. The process of efficiently extracting this oil is still being improved; oil shale is a long-term project with uncertain prospects at this time. But if successful, it could provide literally hundreds of billions of barrels, exceeding the reserves in Saudi Arabia and providing enough oil to supply the United States for many decades.

As secretary of the interior, Salazar will have even more chances to stop cold any progress on oil shale, and with it our best hope for a dramatic increase in domestic oil production.

As with Chu, Obama’s choice for science adviser, John Holdren, has impressive academic credentials but some very strange energy and environmental policy views. Even Al Gore can’t match Holdren’s global warming gloom-and-doom rhetoric, including the claim that it could kill as many as 1 billion people by 2020. Holdren’s a veteran at making such alarming predictions, but back in the 1970s he worried more about whether man would survive the “threat of making the planet too cold.”

But whether it’s warming or cooling, Holdren has consistently advocated the same heavy-handed crackdowns on the economy and energy use, including the need for a “massive campaign ... to de-develop the United States.” Good thing he’s not in charge of the stimulus package.

Rob Bradley, chairman of the Institute for Energy Research, has compiled an amazing list of Holdren’s favorite policy prescriptions, including the “limitation of material consumption,” “redistribution of the wealth,” and even “movement toward some kind of world government.”
Apparently, Holdren isn’t alone on the world government stuff.

In the position of the president’s top assistant on energy and climate policy is former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Carol Browner, whose picture and biography were, until quite recently, on the Web site of Socialist International. She was listed as a member of its Commission For a Sustainable World Society. The old joke that environmental activists are like watermelons -- green on the outside but red on the inside -- isn’t so funny anymore.

She’s not quite as opinionated as Holdren, but Browner does have a long record of placing environmental concerns, real or exaggerated, well above affordable energy and economic growth.
Conspicuously absent from the incoming energy policy team is any real understanding that high energy prices are a bad thing that hurts the American people. Instead of a pro-energy team, Obama has assembled an extreme green team."

Media believes their point of view is the 'neutral' one

Tweet In fact their view is self-created, biased, and worst of all, damaging to the nation. In this case, they make skin color the story when it is anything but. Unsuspecting citizens believe this must be true, direct their attention to it instead of focusing on the real problems of this country:

• ie "...the historic magnitude of what will happen Tuesday,
  

• regardless of your politics."

See, they say EVERYBODY MUST THINK ALIKE. Sorry, no deal.

• If anything was historic, it was the media bias and coverage of this man who outspent his final opponent about 10-1.

• His big victory was beating Hillary Clinton--no one predicted that.

• And no one said that victory was historic because of race.

And no one said he won because of Oprah Winfrey's enormous influence.

• But that's when it was won.

Obama ran unopposed for the presidency. Once he got the nomination, he was guaranteed to win. John McCain didn't want to win, was a joke, lauded praise on Obama while continually criticizing his own staff.

• He allowed his campaign to sabotage his running mate, whom he named at the last minute. McCain was forced on the so-called Republicans even though he does not speak for people who identified themselves as on the right.

• He believes in global warming which does not exist. Right there, no Republican wanted to vote for him.

• He championed massive illegal alien citizenship which would be fine if he would take them all into one of his many personal homes, feed, clothe, educate, provide medical care, etc. to all of them. He failed to do so.

• He had no platform, was in situations where Republican voters begged him to act like he wanted the job, but he never changed his style. He could not win, and was put in by people who knew it.

• Today he's happily back in his role as a maverick--not that there's any Republican party left to worry about.

George Bush himself is most to blame for killing the Republican party and any legitimate leaders it might have had.

• This doesn't begin to get into the financial meltdown which hit right before the election and McCain's embarrassing reaction to it.

The media must understand the race issue is their creation entirely,

• and it is the left who owns it and them.
• AND THAT INCLUDES SO-CALLED 'CONSERVATIVE' WASHINGTON D.C. MEDIA PUNDITS who rely on cable tv appearances. They do not speak for the people.

P.S. Even if it were about race, Obama would not qualify. He grew up in a successful white family in Hawaii, went to an exclusive private school there, then to elite universities in the northeast United States. All his school records have been withheld from his employer (the US citizens). Perhaps the media can build a racial story around that fact if they're so determined.

In support of Israel

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• Do not be bullied. Do not be politically correct. Do not ridicule what you know nothing about. We will overcome corrupt politicians. Socialism has sucked the life out of human beings everywhere it's been tried. So we will pass. Billionaire paper pushers, elitist UN criminals and currency manipulators can take a hike. (sm) photo from RedState.
  

STOP THE MEDIA FROM ATTACKING WEAKENED CITIZENS WITH GLOBAL WARMING LIES

Tweet WHO WILL TELL THE BILLIONAIRE BULLIES TO SHUT UP AND LEAVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ALONE? THE MEDIA POURS LIES OUT ROUND THE CLOCK ABOUT 'DANGERS' OF GLOBAL WARMING, TIME RUNNING OUT ETC. ALL WITH CONTRIVED STATS. THE EXHAUSTED AMERICAN, ALREADY BROKE, CHEATED, HASN'T SUFFERED ENOUGH ACCORDING TO AL GORE, HIS BILLIONAIRE PALS AND THE VILE MASS MEDIA.

• AND TO THE AMERICAN MEDIA --SELF APPOINTED KEEPERS OF NOTHING--WHO TELL US TO BE LIKE EUROPE, YOU KEEP FORGETTING
  
• WE SEE EUROPEAN PAPERS AND THE PEOPLE IN EUROPE ARE OBVIOUSLY ENSLAVED.
  
• IF YOU EVER GOT A REAL JOB IN THE REAL WORLD YOU MIGHT LEARN HOW WRONG YOU'VE BEEN. (By the time you read this, your newspaper may mercifully have gone out of business. Have a nice day).
  

Pearl Harbor bombed, December 7, 1941

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It rained American sailors. 'A date that will live in infamy,' FDR.

• photo via Redstate